DISINFORMATION MANIPULATION BY MISINTERPRETATION OF A HISTORICAL FACT

Abstract

Numerous facts of the use of history by powerful media outlets for ideological purposes are known to information warfare researchers. In this regard, the interpretation of the Russian propaganda machine of the 1774 Kuchuk-Kainarji armistice between Russia and the Ottomans is particularly important. The misinformation interpretation of the Kuchuk-Kainarji truce is directly influenced by such an influential figure as president Putin, which greatly complicates the problem. Another attempt to justify the occupation of the territories of Georgia is another hybrid attack on our territorial integrity by the Russian propaganda media. The different historical past of the Kuchuk-Kainarji truce does not prevent the modern Russian disinformation machine from consolidating public opinion against the state interests of Georgia. There are local efforts by Georgian media outlets to neutralize disinformation, with only a handful of attempts to combat propaganda. It is state-important that a specific fact be followed by an international assessment and that it is constantly circulated in the international media based on reliable sources